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Creating a Climate Smart I-5 Columbia River Crossing

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The Columbia River Crossing (CRC) is a $4.2 billion proposed freeway expansion project along a five mile stretch of Interstate 5 between between North Portland and Vancouver, WA. As conceived, the project will increase global warming pollution, harm people’s health, and undermine our region’s vision of a sustainable economy. The CRC will leave us unprepared for the future, while draining $4 billion + of our limited public resources from other important transportation projects.

The Portland metropolitan area is known nationally for our forward-thinking land use and transportation, and for being an innovator in sustainable planning. We can and should seize this moment and capitalize on our sustainability know-how to be at the forefront of making transportation projects part of the global warming solution. There is no better place to begin this challenging work than with our biggest transportation project in history – the CRC.

A Climate Smart CRC would reduce global warming pollution to conform with Oregon's and Washington's climate change goals. To get there, the CRC project must be dramatically modified to give users the ability to drive less, which is the key to minimizing the project's carbon footprint. A Climate Smart CRC would reduce all pollutants, re-green the corridor, and give people more transportation choices – offering numerous health benefits, and creating a more secure future for all of us, and especially our most vulnerable.